Indian test failed

[ambidex]

Yes this is what has been coming out. Interceptor didnt activated cause in bound missile (target) deviated its path.

 

[ashisbutt]

Yes this is what has been coming out. Interceptor didnt activated cause in bound missile (target) deviated its path.

In real world you cannot request your incoming missile to follow a path right?

Somebody help me out :|

 

[su-47]

In real world you cannot request your incoming missile to follow a path right?

Somebody help me out :|

Interceptor will only respond when incoming missile is perceived as a threat. If it deviated off its path too much, then interceptor wont perceive it as threat and won't respond.

But the worrying news now is how come the prithvi failed? Its a tried and tested system!

 

[gowthamraj]

its a MODIFIED PRITHIV

 

[adatta]

well unless and until a missile is threatening the area which the anti missile is covering then there is no question of the interceptor launch....we must understand here we are not only testing the interceptor but tacitly also the modified prithvi....modified prithvi is different from our other prithvi class missiles and more close to chinese M-11... so the issue is there....here the good thing is that the negative testing which is very important part of any test, is successful...that is the interceptor was not triggered under a false alarm....

 

[AHMED85]

postpone
OK let see what you will done

 

[SEAL]

Indian Missile test failed they tested twice in last two days both times same result.

 

[Join]

Indian Missile test failed they tested twice in last two days both times same result.

yay here comes another genius ....

 

[thebrownguy]

never mind.. self delete

 

[gowthamraj]

Indian Missile test failed they tested twice in last two days both times same result.

i think your govt announced it will test missile between feb 18 to 25, but nothing announced. that means you got 7 failiures. lols

 

[ejaz007]

India fails to test-fire AAD missile
Updated at: 1110 PST, Monday, March 15, 2010


NEW DELHI: India could not test-fire its Interceptor missile, as it encountered a coordination problem and failed to take off from Integrated Test Range along Orissa's coast.

The India defence sources said the test-fire of India's indigenously built Advanced Air Defence (ADD) interceptor missile was put off on Sunday due to a technical snag in the sub-system according to sources.

The ADD interceptor missile, capable of destroying hostile in-coming ballistic missiles. The test is to be held at Integrated Test Range Island off the Orissa coast.

As planned earlier, the test-fire is proposed to be carried out from two different launch sites of ITR, they said.

The target missile, a modified indigenously built Prithvi would first lift off from a mobile launcher from the ITR's launch complex at Chandipur-on-sea, 15 km from Balasore, Orissa.

Minutes later the interceptor missile would blast off from the Wheeler's Island, about 70 km across the sea from Chandipur, to intercept it at an altitude of 15 to 20 km in mid-air over the waters.

Yet to get a formal name, the new hypersonic interceptor missile is only called 'AAD' and is meant to be used in 'endo-atmospheric conditions'.

India fails to test-fire AAD missile

 

[Omar1984]

 

[gambit]

News media are notorious for failing to explain these failures...So here is my take on this from personal experience in weapons testing and development, particularly radar acquisition scenarios under 'real world' environmental conditions...

India's interceptor missile test fails

India's new Advanced Air Defence (AAD) interceptor missile, capable of destroying hostile missiles, on Monday encountered a coordination problem and failed to take off during a planned launch from the Integrated Test Range at Wheeler Island off Orissa coast.

"Coordinated exercise between target missile Prithvi from Chandipur and the indigenously built interceptor from Wheeler Island could not take place properly during the planned trial," defence sources said.

Though Prithvi - the target missile - was test-fired at 10.02 hrs from a mobile launcher from ITR's launch complex-3 at Chandipur-on-sea, 15 km from here, the interceptor missile failed to blast off, they said.

Though the exact reason behind interceptor missile's failure to take off was yet to be ascertained, preliminary analysis suggested that the target missile might have deviated from its stipulated trajectory, leading to lack of proper coordination, the sources said.

The trial, aimed at developing a multi-layer Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) system, was originally scheduled to be held yesterday from the two different sites of the ITR but had to be put off due to some technical snag in a sub-system at Wheeler Island, they said.

Wheeler's Island is located about 70 km across the sea from Chandipur and the AAD missile was to intercept the target at an altitude of 15 to 20 km over the sea.

This is how the test is supposed to go...

1- The 'hostile' missile is the Prithvi and it was launched.

2- The defense radar is supposed to detect the hostile.

3- The interceptor is supposed to launch; receive initial hostile direction from the defense radar; orient itself in that direction; and eventually uses its own detection and guidance system to make an interception.

The comments are:

...preliminary analysis suggested that the target missile might have deviated from its stipulated trajectory, leading to lack of proper coordination, the sources said.

The 'target missile' here would be the 'hostile' Prithvi. Assuming this report is true, so what happened? Why did it go off course? Who is responsible for the launch procedures of the hostile, aka target, missile? The word 'stipulated' here is significant. This indicate the test is about radar acquisition of the target under full environmental conditions such as water related multipath propagation which is hated by radar engineers. The lower the hostile missile's flight altitude, the more problematic. But we do not know if this is the case. If this is a test against ballistic trajectory this would have the hostile missile descending pretty much vertically, so we can rule out multipath propagation. The word 'stipulated' means the defense was expecting the missile, from launch to direction to altitude.

If the hostile missile did deviate, then failure to launch the interceptor was more like refusal rather than failure. This is why I hate stupid news comments like this...

...the interceptor missile failed to blast off, they said.

Refusal to launch, if that was the case, was the right decision. This is about safety as well as finances. Every live missile test is a destructive test. You already launched one wad of money, the hostile one, and it went wrong for some reason, so why would you want another wad of money in the air, chasing after the hostile missile, possibly going outside of the testing area and endangering civilians with no guarantee of success?

 

[Join]

YouTube - FAILED MISSILE TEST BY INDIA

If yours is true, then what is this mr faker...

 

[su-47]

whether the missile failed to launch or whether the launch was postponed, in the end it is a failure, because the plan was to test-fire the missile yesterday, and that didn't happen.

but its better to have a 1000 failures during test period than 1 failure during real war. so as long as we address the issue and successfully test-fire it later, it'll negate the effect of the failure